SPANISH WAR
FIGHT FOR MADRID SPIRIT OF DEFENDERS CHANCES OF VICTORY. London, Feb. 22 The well-known journalist. Mr Vernon Bartlett, who lias returned to j Madrid, writing tn the News Chronicle, says; “The Republicans greet the first day of the general ban on foreign volunteers sceptically. They fear that many more Italians and Germans will arrive to swell the insurgent forces. Nevertheless, I was impressed by the immense potential man. power in the hands of the Government. The young men defending the Republican trenches have developed a sense of discipline of which there was no sign when I was in Madrid last October. “General Miaja, in an interview, said he could easily put 25,000 more well-trained men in the field if rifles and machine-guns were available. Madrid is not so near capture as many people think. The Republicans should be victorious if the Government’s organising capacity and the people’s discipline survive the test of the coming week, for the spirit of .Madrid remains amazing.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 3
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